Strategy on risk bodes ill, Hefce told
Universities are to be warned against adopting commercial-style risk-management procedures in a forthcoming report for the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Colin Raban, head of quality...
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NI gains no peace dividend
Claims that the peace process had reversed Northern Ireland's brain drain have been thrown into doubt by census figures. Recent university plans have been based on the assumption that people were...
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Lecturer linked to unrecognised degree-seller
A senior lecturer at Doncaster College is part of a business selling largely unrecognised degrees and making false claims to accreditation, The THES has learnt. Philip Dunn, an accounting lecturer at...
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Question marks over grant
Thousands of students in Wales were left in confusion this week over whether they would lose benefits if they claimed the new Welsh Assembly learning grant. The grant, introduced this year, entitles...
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UK study highlights threat to elephants
One of Burma's leading veterinary scientists has quit her homeland to reveal the plight of the country's beleaguered elephant workforce to the world. Khyne Mar moved to the UK to analyse half a...
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Analysis: 'Give green light to fees to stop rot,' report says
Academic salaries must rise and fees will have to go up to keep universities competitive, two major studies conclude this week. The THES reports The government must allow universities to charge...
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Analysis: Hefce sounds alarm on pay
Academic salaries must rise and fees will have to go up to keep universities competitive, two major studies conclude this week. The THES reports Academic pay will have to rise if universities are to...
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Analysis: Tinkering with funding policy deters savers
Academic salaries must rise and fees will have to go up to keep universities competitive, two major studies conclude this week. The THES reports Research comparing patterns of saving around the world...
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Experience paves way to mental wellbeing
Diana Rose has a "double identity". She is part of a growing band of mental-health patients, or service users, who are bringing their personal experience to bear on research. Her involvement, and...
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Scots turn dreamers into entrepreneurs
Students with hands-on experience of working with entrepreneurs are far more likely to become entrepreneurs themselves or to play a pivotal role in developing small and medium-sized enterprises....
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Whistleblowers: Hefce 'failed in every respect' to follow code
The Parliamentary ombudsman has criticised funding chiefs for "failing in every respect" to meet the requirements of the code of practice on access to government information. Ruling on a complaint by...
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Plan for military research body
Plans for a pan-European military research agency are being considered by industrialists and policy-makers in a bid to upgrade the European Union's defence capabilities and boost commercial...
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Principal rules out merger
The recent announcement that Joan Stringer, principal of Queen Margaret University College, was to become principal of Napier University worried many of the staff. More than a decade ago, many people...
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Push to get more on HND courses
Employers are to be urged to show more support for sub-degree programmes of study. At a policy forum this month, the Council for Industry and Higher Education will call on business representatives on...
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Shefc earmarks £120k for people management
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has earmarked £120,000 to boost people management in universities and colleges in the coming year. Institutions must draw up and monitor a human-...